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Price check: Price hasn't won since Aug. 28 but hasn't pitched particularly poorly, having allowed two earned runs or fewer his past four starts. He is 1-1 with a 4.26 in four starts this season against the Yankees.

Group effort: With just one day off before the ALDS, the Yankees are expected to use a parade of pitchers tonight, most likely none from their expected postseason roster. RHP Phil Hughes is a possibility.

"I've had a lot of people from the start of the year hat were like, saying, 'Man, I wasn't sure how you guys were going to look this year, if it was going to be a long year.' And looked like it after the first six games. But here we are now. … It could be storybook in the end if we're able to pull it out."Ben Zobrist, on Rays potentially making the playoffs after an 0-6 start.

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Vice President Joe Biden is rooting, even praying for the Red Sox to beat out the Rays for the AL wild-card spot, and for an interesting reason. His lead Secret Service agent is from Boston, and Biden doesn't want him, um, distracted. Before Biden's plane landed Tuesday in Boston, "I said everyone bow their head. We're going to say a prayer that Boston wins the wild-card spot. … I'm worried if in fact they don't, he's going to be so d--- miserable he will not jump in front of a bullet."

There is a reason why the air in Tampa Bay is filled with playoff talk. If Thursday night's 12-8 Bucs preseason win over the Jaguars is any indication, it's also going to be filled with footballs thrown by quarterback Jameis Winston.

TORONTO — Two pitches RHP Chris Archer didn't execute are the ones that stood out Thursday as Josh Donaldson hit them out of the park. But the two solo home runs aside, Archer turned in a sterling outing that went atop the pile of good pitching the Rays keep wasting.

CLEARWATER — Tracey Fritzinger has seen Tim Tebow play baseball a few times this year. The 40-year-old St. Petersburg resident went to two of his games against the Tampa Yankees, along with Joy, her little sister from Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.